A repository in development for a solar powered network of servers that host a distributed web platform. Project by Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella. Supported by Eyebeam, Mozilla, and CS&S
This pull request makes some major changes to installation, development, and deployment of solar protocol. It consolidates the php code into python, removing the php dependency, and updates all protocol code to a new api.
Beta Network
[x] #45
[x] #44
[x] #46
Migration Plan
API ready
[ ] Check what workshops need to be migrated to v3
[ ] Check that artists code can be migrated to v3
Server ready
[ ] Merge current master branch into beta branch
[ ] Record fresh installation video and make available
[ ] Determine which stewards have access to a second microSD card or send them one
[ ] Find times to meet with each steward to follow installation.md
[ ] Once all nodes are on beta.sp.net, and we are ready to migrate
[ ] push new code replacing beta.sp.net with sp.net
[ ] update the gateway to remove beta. from spfa.com
[ ] restart each server
This migration is really cool because as nodes cannot respond to old api, the network is self-healing. Nodes that can only talk 'old protocol' will just show rings for old protocol, new nodes new protocol. The network state may be in a state of flux, but the site will go somewhere working
Major changes
New solar-protocol cli command created to manage everything.
Installation script solar-protocol install for development and on raspberry pi.
Migration into three services - api, datalogger, protocol. These are run in containers to make it easier to work with on different systems.
Migration from php to python + javascript. May migrate all javascript to python templating in the future.
Removal of lots of dependencies and code (around 1/3 the size).
Migration to latest stable python and dependencies.
Improved windows support.
Ability to run multiple instances locally for testing.
Migration to new api v3 based on FastAPI with nice developer docs on /api/docs.
Merging of gateway api into regular api - this means we do not need to rely on server.solarprotocol.net for some things (like getting a nodes ip address), and can be even more distributed.
Migration from custom shell environment setting to secrets.json storage.
Migration from apache to nginx.
Migration to allowlist instead of hardcoding hashes.
Missing features
Removal of website file management in /admin/settings. We are investigating using SyncThing, Samba, FTP, or hypercore.
This pull request makes some major changes to installation, development, and deployment of solar protocol. It consolidates the php code into python, removing the php dependency, and updates all protocol code to a new api.
Beta Network
Migration Plan
API ready
Server ready
beta.sp.netwithsp.netThis migration is really cool because as nodes cannot respond to old api, the network is self-healing. Nodes that can only talk 'old protocol' will just show rings for old protocol, new nodes new protocol. The network state may be in a state of flux, but the site will go somewhere working
Major changes
New
solar-protocolcli command created to manage everything.Installation script
solar-protocol installfor development and on raspberry pi.Migration into three services - api, datalogger, protocol. These are run in containers to make it easier to work with on different systems.
Migration from php to python + javascript. May migrate all javascript to python templating in the future.
Removal of lots of dependencies and code (around 1/3 the size).
Migration to latest stable python and dependencies.
Improved windows support.
Ability to run multiple instances locally for testing.
Migration to new api v3 based on FastAPI with nice developer docs on /api/docs.
Merging of gateway api into regular api - this means we do not need to rely on server.solarprotocol.net for some things (like getting a nodes ip address), and can be even more distributed.
Migration from custom shell environment setting to secrets.json storage.
Migration from apache to nginx.
Migration to allowlist instead of hardcoding hashes.
Missing features
Removal of website file management in /admin/settings. We are investigating using SyncThing, Samba, FTP, or hypercore.